“I need not remind anyone here that graduate education is neither obvious nor easy,” President Chase F. Robinson said at the GC's Fifty-Second Commencement Exercises. “But no one is better qualified to counter what most imperils us — inequality, environmental risk, willful disregard for truth — than you, our graduates.” Read more
The 2016 President’s Distinguished Alumni Medal recipient reflects on receiving his alma mater’s highest honor — and offered clear-cut advice for 2016 graduates. Read more
Valerie Imbruce
From Farm to Canal Street
(Cornell University Press, 2015) Read more
David Vine
Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases
Abroad Harm America and the World
(Metropolitan Books, 2015)
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Luana Y. Ferreira (Ph.D. 2014, Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages) has been named a 2015-17 Empire State Fellow, one of 10 professionals selected by Governor Andrew Cuomo as “the next generation of New York State policymakers.” Read more
Lindsay Green-Barber (Ph.D. ’12, Political Science) has been named the first director of strategic research at the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), the California-based journalism nonprofit that investigates cases of injustice and exploitation of power. Read more
Jennifer Ayala (Ph.D.’05, Psychology) was recently named the director of The Center for Undocumented Students (TCUS) at St. Peter’s University, a private Jesuit college in New Jersey. Read more
Noah Heller (Ph.D.’15, Urban Education) recently joined the faculty of Harvard Graduate School of Education as a Lecturer on Education and Master Teacher in Residence.
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Students, faculty, and alumni of the Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences recently received various honors from the Acoustical Society of America, the world’s most prestigious scientific society dedicated to the study and applications of acoustics. Read more
A post-doctoral fellow at Baylor College of Medicine, Ivan Assenov Anastassov recently received a $160,000 NIH grant to support his research on how the brain receives and interprets what is seen through the eye. Read more